IBM 360 Model 20 rescue and restoration

In late April of 2019 Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn were sitting in a pub on a Monday night when Chris happened across a somewhat unusual eBay listing for an IBM 360 Model 20. This eBay listing was unusual mainly because it didn’t actually list the computer as an IBM 360, but rather as an “seltene Anlage “Puma Computer IBM 2020” which roughly translates from German into “rare plant “Puma Computer IBM 2020”.

Mildly shocked that Thom, master of all languages, would miss that, but I’m sure it was a trivial detail and he’s busy correctly translating things people pay him to. I mean he knows at least two languages, which is 1.5 more than me. Of course this is a expert falicy, someone is better than me in something I know nothing about, so I attribute God like abilities to them.